正文 CHAPTER 9

Charity in Full Dress

THE culmination of Maggies career as an admired member of society in St Oggs was certainly the day of the Bazaar, when her simple noble beauty, clad in a white muslin of some soft-floating kind, which I suspect must have e from the stores of aunt Pullets wardrobe, appeared with marked distinong the more adorned and ventional women around her. We perhaps never deteuch of our social demeanour is made up of artificial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful and simple: without the beauty we are apt to call simplicity awkwardness. The Miss Guests were much too well-bred to have any of the grimaces and affected tohat belong to pretentious vulgarity; but their stall beio the one where Maggie sat, it seemed newly obvious today that Miss Guest held her too high, and that Miss Laura spoke and moved tinually with a view to effect. All well-drest St Oggs and its neighbourhood were there, and it would have been worth while to e e……(内容加载失败!)

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